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Bank of America BAC reported excellent numbers for the third quarter, with earnings of $1.06 per share, equating to a return on tangible equity of 15.4%, powered by net interest margin expansion, ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd are joining a federal review board looking at the national emergency disaster response system. President Donald Trump ...

Nim Kidd said he is “committed to serving Texas” after POLITICO reported that he had interviewed for the job in February. The head of disaster response in Texas has withdrawn himself from ...

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The project focuses on designing, constructing, and demonstrating a hydrogen-powered cargo vessel that will operate in the North Sea and beyond. Managed by Van Dam Shipping, the ship is designed to ...

The maritime industry is taking a large step toward sustainability with the launch of the H2ESTIA Project, a groundbreaking initiative to develop the world’s first zero-emission general cargo ship ...

AI powerhouse NVIDIA flexed its muscle at its GTC 2025 conference this week where several partnerships with Microsoft were announced, mostly concerning Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry offering. The Azure ...

Most tax-advantaged and tax-exempt funds are not appealing to us due to low yields or high leverage. Nuveen Select Maturity Municipal Fund focuses on tax-exempt income and capital preservation, ...

After ten years, Yale University has ended its partnership with Harvard to provide a version of Computer Science 50. The jointly taught computer science class — which piloted at Harvard in 1989 before ...

“Introduction to Computing and Programming,” better known by its Harvard course code of “CS50,” will not be returning in fall 2025. One of Yale’s largest computer science courses, jointly taught with ...